v0.5.0 — multiplayer Phases 2 and 3: a server that runs a game and survives being restarted

Phases 0-1 shipped in v0.4.0 (seat/identity split, per-player turn state, the Session boundary).
This lands Phase 2 (server core, one game, no lobby) and Phase 3 (persistence and resumption) per
docs/architecture/multiplayer.md §12. Phases 4-6 (lobby/reconnection, the 22 opponent-directed
cards, StartOS packaging) are still ahead.

Phase 2: src/server/session.ts hosts a game in pure logic (no sockets) on top of game.ts's existing
Game/submit/currentActor/actionMenu; it verifies seat === currentActor(game) itself before calling
submit, since submit() trusts its caller and a server can't. src/server/http.ts and index.ts add
POST /api/game, GET /api/stream (SSE, per-seat), POST /api/intent, and static serving of dist/.
src/sim/frame-delta.ts is a purpose-built per-seat board delta for one live push at a time. Found
and fixed along the way: actionMenu(game, seat) only used seat for the hand field, so a server
computing every connected seat's Menu would have handed the acting player's legal moves to a
waiting seat. Verified with a live end-to-end smoke test (2-player game, two SSE streams, a
rejected intent from the wrong seat, an idempotent resend) plus test/server/session.test.ts and
test/redaction.test.ts. Not verified: an actual browser (none available in this environment).

Phase 3: src/server/persistence.ts writes game.json and turn-timings.json, atomic-rewrite-then-
rename. game.ts gained fromMultiplayerSave, fixing a narration-attribution bug found while testing
it (fromSave's replay loop drops the actor argument, invisible in solitaire, unreadable the moment
there's more than one seat — fromSave itself still has this gap, deliberately untouched). Verified
live: server killed and restarted mid-game, both seats reconnected exactly where they left off.

Two rules bugs found while building this: the New Train phase never implemented its car-placement
round (every car of every train was placed by the Superintendent alone, in every mode, all along —
now reads the round position off tray.consist.length); and victory conditions are now one shared,
configurable GameConfig set across solitaire/competitive/coop instead of a fixed length lookup and
a dead firstToTarget condition.

Also folds in the three fixes already released on the patch line as v0.4.9b/c/d: a switching
train's crew badge failing to draw once it left the Office square, an unload that always took the
westmost car regardless of which was picked, and a legal decision that could render with zero
buttons.

docs/testing/0.5.0-test-plan.md and three reported-bug save files (docs/station-master-seed*.json)
included for reproducibility. tools/jitsi-harness/ deliberately left untracked — unrelated
side-project work, not part of this release. 635 tests, 0 failures.
This commit is contained in:
Jesse
2026-08-20 23:50:38 -04:00
parent f9c4d9fa92
commit c3c5cbfeec
52 changed files with 5282 additions and 420 deletions
+15 -6
View File
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@
*/
import { pump } from '../engine/advance.ts';
import { collectiveRevenueFloor, lengthProfile } from '../engine/content.ts';
import {
DEFAULT_MAX_COLLISIONS_PER_DAY,
DEFAULT_MAX_COLLISIONS_TOTAL,
collectiveRevenueFloor,
lengthProfile,
} from '../engine/content.ts';
import { createGame } from '../engine/setup.ts';
import type { GameLength } from '../engine/content.ts';
import type { GameConfig, GameMode } from '../engine/state.ts';
@@ -60,11 +65,15 @@ function statsOf(xs: number[]): Stats {
};
}
function configFor(mode: GameMode, length: GameLength): GameConfig {
function configFor(mode: GameMode, length: GameLength, players: number): GameConfig {
const days = lengthProfile(length).days;
return {
mode,
victory: 'highestAfterDays',
length,
days,
minCombinedRevenue: collectiveRevenueFloor(players, days),
maxCollisionsPerDay: DEFAULT_MAX_COLLISIONS_PER_DAY,
maxCollisionsTotal: DEFAULT_MAX_COLLISIONS_TOTAL,
pvpCardsAllowed: false,
optionalRules: {
reducedVisibility: false,
sisterTrains: false,
@@ -83,7 +92,7 @@ export function simulate(opts: SimOptions): SimReport {
const s = createGame({
id: `sim-${i}`,
seed,
config: configFor(opts.mode, opts.length),
config: configFor(opts.mode, opts.length, opts.players.length),
playerNames: opts.players,
});
// The probe watches the game as it is played: the funnel gates are conditions at a moment, not
@@ -154,7 +163,7 @@ export function formatReport(r: SimReport, length: GameLength, players: number):
// The provisional numbers this exists to test.
out.push('\n against the provisional targets:');
out.push(` target ${profile.target} over ${profile.days} Days`);
out.push(` ${profile.days} Days`);
out.push(
` predicted ~5-6 revenue/player/Day steady state; observed mean ` +
`${r.revenuePerPlayerPerDay.mean.toFixed(1)}`,